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the ''Alexander'' and the said ketch, and … the ''Alexander'' and the said ketch, and sent the ''Starrs''<br />
Company which were in the ''Alexander'' onboard the ''Starre'', and<br />
soe sailed away from the ''Starr'', Th ePremisses hee<br />
Deposeth being an Eye and eare witnesse of the same,<br />
And further cannot depose./.
To the 4th hee saith that presently after the ''Alexander'' and her<br />
Ketch had soe left the ''Golden Starr'', the said other ship which<br />
they espyed came up to the ''Starr''. and proved to be a man<br />
of warr of Zealand, and her Company hee saith tooke out<br />
another Pipe of winem and a Pipe of water<br />
and carried the same onboard the Zealand man<br />
of warr, and sailed away with the same, and saith that<br />
about two or three dayes after there happened a great storme<br />
which Continued about five or six Dayes, and by reason<br />
of the Teares, and ranges of the Pipes of wine were<br />
broken by the Captaine and Company of the<br />
''Alexander'', and her Ketch and the Company of the said<br />
Zealand man of warr, many Pipes of wine in the<br />
said shipp rowled and tumbled to and fro, and by that meanes<br />
much of the wine leaked out of the Pipes, and saith that one<br />
Pipe was thereby leaked quite out, and another<br />
about halfe out and about the quantity of another<br />
Pipe hee beleeveth leaked out of other Caskes, which losse<br />
was occasioned by the Captaine and Companys of the<br />
''Alexander'' and the Ketch by their breaking the ranges<br />
and teares of the said Pipes. And further cannot depose./.
To the fifth hee saith that the Owners of the said shipp ''Starr''<br />
and her Lading have suffred greate Losse and damage<br />
by reason of the said seizure and [?stay] as aforesaid<br />
And saith that hee beleeveth the foresaid Pipes of wines<br />
were worth the summe of thirty five pounds per pipe, and saith<br />
that the said Cutlace, two Canns, China Pot with the silver<br />
Cover, spoones Platters and frying pan and Table Vloaths<br />
soe taken away as aforesaid were worth the summe of 5 ''li'' 10 ''s''<br />
or thereabouts. The Master and Companys Cloathes and Necessaryes which<br />
were then alsoe taken away were worth about 10 ''li'' or 11 ''li'' And<br />
saith the foresaid seizors did take away, or kill, or were the<br />
cause of the deaths of about foure dozen of Canary birds which<br />
were then in the said ship, which were worth about five shillings<br />
a peece, and saith that the said ships sailes and rigging<br />
by the violent shooting as aforesaid were damnified to<br />
the summe or vallue of twenty pounds at the least as this<br />
deponent beleeveth and saith that hee beleeveth that the said ship<br />
''Starr'' was a fortnight longer before shee gott into falmouth then shee<br />
would have bin, had shee not bin carried out of her way as<br />
(aforesaidd out of her way as<br />
(aforesaid +
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